This may be something obvious to hardened Windows J users, but I couldn't find anything on the forums or the Wiki, so I thought I'd post it. I often find myself browsing through folders containing *.ijs files in Windows Explorer and wanting to see what was in a script. Registering *.ijs files so j.exe starts and loads them, isn't too hard (I think this might be done during installation but I'm not sure?). The command line that runs is: "C:\progra~1\j601\j.exe" "%1"
[You can find this as follows: From and Explorer window: Tools/Folder Options/File Types/ Select "IJS" from Registered file types Click on Advanced and Edit the "open" action ] Unfortuately on my system this action has the default Windows name of "open" when, from a J point of view, it is actually a load. What I really wanted was for j.exe to start & just open the script file. After a bit of reading & experimentation I found that the following command line would do just that. "C:\progra~1\j601\j.exe" -js "open '%1'" I renamed the existing action to "load" and created a new action called "open" with the above command line in the "Application used to perform action" edit box. Now when I right click on a *.ijs file in Explorer, I'm given the option to open or to load it. I'm happy. (Well almost! At the moment each script I "open" starts a new copy of J.exe. This has advantages but sometimes I'd like to have them opened by one copy. The other thing that I tried was dragging & dropping script file(s) on an open *.ijx window but that obviously isn't supported) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
